00:00The Presiding Officer acted outside the limits conferred upon her by the Tobago House of Assembly Standing Orders.
00:09She's not the Speaker of the House, nor the President of the Senate. As such, she doesn't have sweeping powers.
00:16When coming to the conduct of the assembly business, she has provisions in the rule to conduct those matters.
00:25And if the rules are safe, she could therefore act outside of the rules to ensure the conduct of the business.
00:33But when coming to the conduct of assemblyman behavior, she has no powers in that.
00:39The rules does not provide for that. She cannot tell an assemblyman how to regulate.
00:44As such, she cannot remove an assemblyman from a sitting. She cannot do that.
00:51And I believe she acted outside of the law. And therefore, this is something that the public has to debate.
00:58She has to tone it down. And she has to be balanced in her conduct of the assembly business.
